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POLICE & COURTS

Three men are accused in the savage beating of a 37-year-old man on Sycamore Street at about 3 a.m. Wednesday in what police said was a gang assault.

Patrick Weaver, 37, of Walden Avenue, was listed in critical condition in the intensive care unit of Erie County Medical Center. Police said the victim, whose feet were bound together with a bootlace, was kicked and punched repeatedly in the head and body. He suffered lacerations and possible fractures to his face and head, police said.

A woman told Buffalo police she was raped by an unknown man over the weekend while she was high on crack cocaine and marijuana.

Central District police said the woman was leaving her friend's house when she accepted a ride from a man in a white, two-door car at about 4 a.m. Sunday.

The woman told police she was driven around for about 30 minutes when he pulled over on a side street off Niagara Street on the city's West Side. Police said the victim left the vehicle and began to walk away, but the man grabbed her from behind and pushed her to the ground.

The victim told police she fell onto the grass beside a sidewalk and in front of some houses, where he ripped her pants and shirt off and raped her. The man then got into his vehicle and drove away.

A Buffalo woman was riding her bicycle in the 600 block of Lafayette Avenue early Tuesday when two men knocked her off and demanded money at gunpoint, police said.

The woman was riding east on Lafayette at about 1:10 a.m. when two men walked into the street and confronted her, causing her to fall onto the street, Northwest District police said.

One men pointed a handgun at her and said, "Give me your money," and the woman replied that she had no money with her, police said.

At that point, the two men ran west on Lafayette toward Elmwood Avenue. The woman ran home and called police.

It was unclear if anything was stolen during the incident.

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O'Connell Avenue man injured during fight

An O'Connell Avenue man suffered swelling that closed his right eye after he was hit in the face with a two-by-four during a fight Monday with his half brother, police said.

The victim refused treatment at the scene but told officers he would go to a hospital.

The fight erupted at about 8:30 p.m. in the victim's home in the Old First Ward.

Police said they have the name of a suspect but no arrests had been made.

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Arrest made in assault of man in his home

Police have charged a Buffalo man with burglary and assault after he allegedly refused to leave a Duerstein Avenue man's home Wednesday, then beat him with an ashtray.

Terrence Cole, age unknown, came into the victim's home at about 2:10 p.m. and refused to leave, said police, adding that Cole then picked up a small metal ashtray and began beating the victim with it.

The victim said he lost consciousness, then awoke to see Cole punching him in the head and body, police said. Emergency medical responders said the victim refused transport to the hospital.